8:15 Derinna Kopp (Antiquities Section, State of Utah) The Curious Case of Five Finger Ridge.

8:30 Joan B. Coltrain (University of Utah) The Fremont and Other Utah Archaeological Complexes: What Can Stable Isotope Chemistry and Accelerator Radiocarbon Dating Tell Us About Economic Patterning?

8:45 Matthew Zweifel (Bureau of Land Management, Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument) The Tommy Turf Site 42Ka6032: A Basketmaker II Burial from Kane County Utah.

9:00 BREAK

9:15 Ronald J. Rood (Antiquities Section, State of Utah) Telling the Complete Story: How Archaeology, Forensic Anthropology and History Explain What Really Happened to Six Native American Men and One Boy in Nephi, Utah Territory, 1853.

3:00 Taylor S. Fielding (Morrill & Fielding) Native American Sacred Site Protection and the Establishment Clause in the Federal Courts.

3:15 Rachelle Green (Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest) Too Much Mastication? Fuels Reduction Projects of the Present Reveal the Archaeological Impacts of Chaining in the Past and its Affect on Assessing Site Significance.

8:15 Ethan Epstein and Emily Mueller Epstein (University of Wisconsin -Milwaukee) Trends and transitions in the Catlow Uplands/Steens Mountain area of Oregon as seen from the Roaring Triangulation Site (35HA385).

Adolfo F. Gil (CONICET – Museo de Historia Natural de San Rafael), Steven R. Simms (Utah State University), and Gustavo Neme (CONICET – Museo de Historia Natural de San Rafael) Central Western Argentina and the Great Basin/Intermountain Region: Parallels in Culture Process and Interests in Archaeological Method and Theory.

Jonathan Grant (Desert Research Institute) Seasonlity of Pickleweed Seed Gathering in the Great Salt Lake Desert.

Christopher A. Kiahtipes (Washington State University) The Poaceae of Wrath: Environmental Change and the Emergence of Late Archaic Foragers.

Andrew Ugan (University of Utah and Museo de Hist. Nat'l de San Rafael), Joan Coltrain (University of Utah), and Gustavo Neme, Adolfo Gil, Paula Novellino, Carina Llano, Clara Otaola, Alejandra Guerci (Museo de Historia Natural de San Rafael) Agriculture at the Limits: A Comparison of Isotopic and Optimal Foraging Data from Western Argentina and the Great Basin.

Daron Duke and Alexander K. Rogers (Far Western Anthropological Research Group) Does it Matter to an Obsidian Hydration Rim When a Temperature Change Occurs?An Experimental Test and an Archaeological Case from the Old River Bed, Western Utah.

Jennifer Kielhofer (University of Nevada, Reno) Preliminary Results of Technological and Source Provenance Analyses of the Lithic Assemblage from Wild Bill Shelter: What They Can Tell Us about the Prehistoric Occupants of Warner Valley, Oregon.

Nicole Lohman (Great Basin National Park) Rock Art with a View: An Analysis of the Wheeler Peak Rock Art Site.

Deborah Graham (University of Utah and Utah Division of State History, Antiquities Section) An Examination of the Manifestation and Identification of Pot Polish in Processed and Boiled Osteoarchaeological Assemblages.

Mike Lenzi (Far Western Anthropological Research Group) A Long Term Experimental Archaeology Project to Understand Post-Depositional Processes.

Jeff Rosentreter and John Malamakal (Idaho State University) Challenges Associated with Solvent Selection for Residue Analysis on Charcoal.

3:30 – 4:30Business Meeting in Meridian F

4:00 – 6:00 Cash bar and hors d’oeuvres in Cirrus Atrium

6:00 – 8:00 Banquet and Awards Ceremony in Meridian CDGH * Banquet orders must be submitted in advance.If you plan to attend the banquet please RSVP to Lori Hunsaker with your menu selection no later October 15th.